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Carolina Life Wednesday, November 8,1989 the gamecock 5 New advert caters to th( By SCOTT PRUDEN Staff Writer Flipping through the Sunday State newspaper day, I found myself at the coupons. Since I'm a cost-conscious guy, I usually take time to go through these to see if I can save a little dough on deodorant and belly-button-lint remover and stuff like that. On my way past the Ex-Lax coupons, I was suddenly faced with an unassuming cartoon ad for Liauid Dial soan. Standing at a sink is Soapy the Raccoon, diligently washing his hands, with two freckle-faced, white-bread American youths smiling and looking on. What bothered me was what Soapy is saying in the ad. Soapy says, "Since germs can be on anything you touch you can never wash your hands too much." Apparently Dial has lousy copy editors, because they need a comma in there. Then with the coupon, they include an order form for a plush Soapy doll, some cute stickers and a book to help children learn how to wash their hands. Pretty sick, eh? I think we've entered a new age of advertising, in which corporations are promoting psychological (iicnrHfrc to cHI thpir nroHnr-te If enough children paid attention to this ad, we could have a nation of little future obsessivecompulsives, rushing at every opportunity to scrub their hands clean of those evil germs they picked up when they hugged grandma. Maybe this campaign was sparked by the AIDS scare. To tell you the truth, I don't think picking up the HIV virus is on the mind of your average fourth grader, even though it may scare the bejeesus DON'T CHICKEI OUT. mur-tSDONi vvt irvtv ROOD OUI1 CAROL IDEAS Mi piesei JACK HI I J <0 AMNESTY INTERN/ "The Futi A > NO RUS< This Lecture sp< ?? J ising trend ^ neurotic j Scott Pruderi Lifestyles out of Mom and Dad to think tl little Fritz in the kindergarten cl; mirrVif hoim ^ ? iiugui iiavv/ nuilg (JUL 111 a tUU(JlC gay bathhouses or shot up with dirty needle one time too many. Personally, I think about chi ren as having dirty hands all I time. And not just germ-infest hands. I'm talking grimy, dir mud-encrusted hands. That's ji the way little kids are. Push t handwashing too much, and we end up with children growing to be Howard Hughes clones. Imagine these scenes. A sixth grade boy returns fron day at school, sits down to t snack dutifully prepared by 1 mother, and says, "Mom, Jen Lewis kissed me today. Can y hand me that Brillo lip scrubber? Or this. A wife returns frc work and says, "Honey, make si to burn this outfit. I think it ac< dentally brushed against the sink work." Or even better. A young man i turns on his first trip back frc college, anxious for a wari fatherly handshake from his da but Pop says, "Nope. No touchir son. No telling what you mig have picked up at school." See what I mean? This could i ally get out of hand if measur aren i ratten ngni now. 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